Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

However, after further warnings, the Council set them at liberty, not seeing any safe way of punishing them, because of the people, for they were all praising God for what had occurred;

This had taken a considerable time, and sailing was already dangerous, for the Fast was already over; and so Paul gave this warning.

except that in city after city the Holy Spirit is warning me that bonds and afflictions are awaiting me.

strengthening the hearts of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, and warning them that it is through enduring many hardships that we must get into the kingdom of God.

So we looked up the disciples there and stayed a week with them. Because of impressions made by the Spirit they kept on warning Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man well spoken of by all the Jewish people, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear what you have to say.”